Women's Studies at SCSU

Fall Conference 2003

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, October 17
Registration (MORRILL HALL) - 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Welcome and Featured Panel, MORRILL 108
Jewish Women Organizing as Jews Toward Peace between Israel and the Palestinians in the U.S. and in Israel
2:00pm - 3:30pm

Reception - 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Concurrent Sessions A - 4:00pm - 5:15pm

A1 The White House War on Women

Registration prices, 1 day / 2 day:
Regular = $105.00 / $90.00
CSU faculty/administration = $95.00 / $80.00
CSU Clerical/Custodial = $85.00 / $70.00
Grad student = $80.00 / $65.00
Undergrad student = $65.00 / $50.00
High School student = $45.00 / $30.00

A2 Women Resisting War

Living Body and Corpse: Palestinian-Arab and Israeli-Jewish Films with Women Directors

Feminist Resistance at Times of War and Conflict: The Case of Iraq, Israel and Palestine

Not Like Sheep to the Slaughter—Women's Resistance to the Holocaust
Moderator Heather Ostman

A3 Women's Writing in Time of War: Pacifism vs. Patriotism

Parlour Poetics and the Poetry of War Work

Virginia Woolf Against History: A Counternarrative of Reunification and Community in Between the Acts

The Gender of Peace and War: Gilman, Woolf, and Freud
Moderator Dr. Vara Neverow

Break - 5:15pm - 5:30

Concurrent Session B - 5:30pm - 6:45pm

B1 Americans' Role in the World

B2 Waging Peace

Elise Boulding: Peace Pioneer

Strategic Mothers: Antimilitarism in Addams's and Goldman's Autobiographies

B4 Company Jasmine - Women Field Officers School

B5 Women's Role in Peace and War in Africa

Artistic Presentation using the African style of story telling, poetry, song and dance to explore women's role in peace and war in Africa.

B6 World War and Women' s Resistance: French Connections

Pacifists and Patriots: French Women in World War I

Elsa Triolet and the European Peace Movement in the Era of the Cold War

B7 Women's Polemics and Memories in Authoritarian/Post-Authoritarian World Orders

Dinner - 6:45pm - 7:45pm

Keynote - 8:00pm - 9:00pm, MORRILL 108
Anne Llewellyn Barstow
Anne Barstow is a Historian, retired from SUNY College at Old Westbury. Author of War's Dirty Secret: Rape, Prostitution, and Other Crimes Against Women (2000) and Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts (1994). Barstow has taught courses on Women and Religion and Peace and War. In retirement, she takes groups every year to Central or South America to be human rights observers and to learn about the effects of the U.S. foreign policy in those lands.

Saturday - October 18

Registration (MORRILL HALL) 9:00am - 9:45am - Continental Breakfast
Registration continues until 2pm

Concurrent Session C - 10:00am - 11:15am

C1 Women's Caucus for Art -- Connecticut

C2 Challenges Encountered by Women of Diverse Ethnicities Serving in the American Armed Forces

C3 Feminist Student Activism on Women, War and Peace Issues
C4 Science Women and Development

C5 A Different Warfront: Military Rape and Lynching

To Carnally Know Her: A Study of Rape and Sexual Assault during the American Civil War

Mass Rape in Wartime: Feminist Perspectives in the Documentary

What Does Lynching Mean? : Situating the Black Woman in the Lynching Debate

C6 War & Female Citizenship: The American & Italian Experiences

The Lost Wave: Italian Women Leaders from the Resistance to the First Parliament
Allison S. Belzer, "Women into Citizens: The Politicization of Italian Femininity during the First World War."
Naomi Reed, "International Suffrage: The Role of International Politics in U.S. Women's Suffrage."

C7 Inner War/Inner Peace

The Feminist War against Mental Illness

Landscape of Abuse: Transforming Feminine Spirit from Powerlessness to Purpose

Break - 11:15am - 11:45am

Concurrent Session D - 11:45am - 1pm
D1 Women, War and Peace - poetry reading

D2 Critical Theory Negotiating the Discourse of War

Hegemonic Masculinities and Counter-hegemonic Feminist Movements for Peace and Justice

Tough Negotiations: The Ethical Imperatives of Peace
Moderator Christine Moller-Sahling

D3 Feminist Challenges to War

Feminist and Women's Organizing in the 2002-2003 Anti-War Movement

D4 Advocating for Peace

Latin American Women as Advocates for Peace: A Workshop for Teachers K-12

Women as Peace Makers

D5 Southeast Asian War Resisters

Soldier and SWAN: The Changing Shape of Shan Women's Resistance to the Burmese Military Junta

The Lady of Burma/Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi's Nonviolent Struggle for Democracy

D6 Memories, Dreams, and Resistance

Nuclear Nights: Greenham, Seneca and the History of Dreaming

A Woman's Place? Social Conflicts, Psychological Trauma, and Women in Civil and Human Rights Movements
Moderator Andrea Clark

Luncheon - 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Keynote - 2:15pm - 3:15pm, ENGLEMAN A120
Lakota Harden
Lakota Harden (Minneconjou/Yankton Lakota and Hochunk, adopted Tlingit, Quechua) is an orator, activist, community organizer, facilitator and poet. She has dedicated her life, as a daughter of seven generations of Lakota Leaders, to liberation and justice. From her political and cultural activism with the American Indian Movement, Women of All Red Nations, and the Indigenous Women's Network to her environmental activism with Black Hills Alliance, the Bison Land Resource Center and more recently with the International Indian Treaty Council, Ms. Harden's commitment to ending racism, sexism, violence, and other social oppressions in the United States has had a resounding impact over the last thirty years. We welcome her and look forward to hearing her insights on current issues of war and peace in our world.

Break - 3:15pm - 3:45pm

Concurrent Session E - 3:45pm - 5:00pm

E1 Women's Reflections Of War

A Woman's View of Homeland

Romance and Reconciliation After WWI: Women's Roles in American-Occupied Germany and in the U.S. 1918-1923

E2 Peace and Security: A Glimpse of Hope

Resolution 1325 - A New Hope for Women in War and Peace?

Human Security in Theory and Practice: The Case of Gender Mainstreaming

E3 Looking for Visibility: Women's Leadership in the Peace Movement Yesterday and Today

E4 Indigenous People's Wars

Images of the Rural Future: Quechua Indians Contest Modernity

So she fought them with sex and war: Contemporary Native Writers Resurrecting Women Warriors

Win Oye Ya - The Women's Way
Moderator Ms. Barbara Gurr

E5 Women, War and Peace in the College Classroom

Teaching Women and War: Integration of Knowledge Courses at Bucks County Community College

Learning Peace in Time of War: A Classroom Retrospective
Moderator Dr. Leah Stambler

E6 Wars Against Women/Women Against Wars

Women of Pakistan and India: Rights, Ecology, Economy, and Nuclear Disarmament

Gender and Genocide

Women for Peace - East German Women During the Cold War
Moderator Ms. Margaret Goralski

E7 Women, War, Peace and Art

A'ga Eje Ogu be Chukwu? (Shall we fight God?): A Woman's Recollection of the Nigeria-Biafra War

E8: 3:45 - 4:20
Forced Abortions and so-called "Children's Homes"

E9 4:25 - 5:00
Multi-Culturalism: Origins and Mass Media Implications

Keynote - 5:15pm - 6:15pm, ENGLEMAN, A120
Colleen Kelly of Families of September 11th for Peaceful Tomorrows

Colleen Kelly is the 41 year old mother of three. She lost her brother, Bill Kelly Jr., on September 11th, 2001 at the World Trade Centers. Bill didn't work there. He was attending a breakfast conference at Windows On the World, 106th Floor. She is a co-founder of the September 11th Families For Peaceful Tomorrows, a group of family members united in the desire to turn their grief into action for peace. She travelled to Florence, Italy in 2002 to give a keynote address at the European Social Forum, and Iraq in January of 2003 to meet with Iraqi family members affected by years of war, sanctions, the brutality of Hussein's regime, and the then pending threat of U.S. military force.

Colleen works as the New York Coordinator for Peaceful Tomorrows. She lives in the Bronx with her husband and children, ages 6, 9, and 11.

Colleen is also the co-founder in 1997 of the Ita Ford Health Team, a group of health care providers serving the adult, uninsured population of East Harlem. This free clinic was renamed in 2001 to include her brother's memory, and now goes by the very long name of the Ita Ford— Bill Kelly Jr. Health Team.

Dinner - 6:15pm - 7:30pm

The Women’s Fair
The Annual Women’s Fair features woman-owned businesses, woman-oriented services, woman-made products, women’s advocacy groups and woman-centered political organizations. It will be held in conjunction with the conference. All products at the Fair are earth and animal-friendly and cruelty-free. Interested vendors should request applications from the Women’s Studies Office 203.392.6133.

Artist Mary Jo Lombardo will have an exhibit at the conference. Visit her web site at www.maryjolombardo.com